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SAMOSA APP Did you remember a period where you started getting movie punch dialogues and song clips as messages in your social networking apps like Whatsapp, Hike, Facebook messenger etc? Did you ever think who first started this? Do you know that there is an app for this and they make huge profit out of it?

The answer for all these questions is SAMOSA APP. They first started Samosa Labs in a room and operated their app successfully for almost a period of an year then they received funding from a million dollar company from USA and started their own company by increasing employees and languages of operation. ‘Tired of typing for chatting with friends . Want to share punch dialogues with your friends , then try Samosa app’ this is the tagline through which they entered the social media. What can we do using this app? You can Spice up your conversations using Samosa. Share punchlines, proverbs, love proposals, witty responses, funny expressions and song clips from popular movies. Highlights: ★ Discover entertainment in your language ★ Ultra fast sharing to WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Hike ★ Inspire the community with your uploads currently this app is available in Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam. Make the mundane exciting, every single day 🙂

Who is the founder of this app? Abhilash Inumella is the founder of samosa labs. He previously worked as Product engineer at Facebook and Google. He was awarded gold medal at IIIT, Hyderabad for his all round contribution to sports and academics. Apart from SAMOSA app he also developed many other things. Let me give you a brief history about him. ● In 2008, as a computer science student at IIIT-Hyderabad, Abhilash Inumella dreamt of a badminton court springing out of a briefcase, in just seconds. Now, six years and much research later, the 26-year-old has built India’s first portable badminton court that could make up for the lack of sports infrastructure in the country.While setting up isn’t as quick as his “dream”, one can pack the badminton arena in a bundle, unfold and inflate it into a dome — in six hours! All you need is a level surface. Abhilash is trying to bring down the installation time to five minutes. He also hopes his invention helps badminton — a sport in which he played nationallevel matches, until a knee injury ended his career. ● He with his friends launched afterEamcet.com during the summer of undergraduate final year. It lets students intending to join engineering college ask and answer various questions related to the colleges. They printed 1000 pamphlets and distributed them to students at their examinations centers. An impressive 45k students out of total 1.2 lakh students used their service. They also sold banner advertisement spaces to engineering colleges. They finished all this work in a span of four weeks and were awarded 2nd runner up at International Services Innovation Challenge at Indian School of Business for their feats. ● In June 2012 he developed a bunch of tools to make integrations with Facebook easier and simpler. He wrote a service that alerts developers within three hours if a large volume of api errors are seen from their apps. It generated huge excitement among developers and was also picked up by various news outlets: thenextweb, webpronews, allfacebook etc.

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